The following states and territories fell in trend terms in October 2017: Western Australia (-0.3%), Queensland (-0.1%), Victoria (-0.1%), the Northern Territory (-0.4%), the Australian Capital Territory (-0.2%), and Tasmania (-0.1%). New South Wales (0.0%) was relatively unchanged. South Australia (0.1%) rose in trend terms in October 2017.

NOTES

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CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

This issue includes updated online retail turnover estimates for the October 2017 reference month and updated consumer sales estimates for the September 2017 quarter.

REVISIONS

There are no revisions to the original estimates. Revisions to seasonally adjusted estimates are due to the concurrent methodology for deriving seasonal factors. For information on seasonal adjustment and trend estimation please refer to the explanatory notes of this publication.

TIME SERIES DATA

Data available from the Downloads tab of this issue on the ABS website include longer time series of tables in this publication:

Monthly retail turnover by state and 15 industry subgroups in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms

Monthly retail turnover completely enumerated and sample sectors, by six industry groups and also by state in original terms

Quarterly retail chain volume measures by six industry groups and also by state in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms

Quarterly retail turnover per capita in trend, seasonally adjusted and original terms

Quarterly sales to households by selected service industries in original terms.

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